Machine for printing prepared roofing.



IVL B. BECKER.

MACHINE FOR PRINTING PREPARED RooFING.

APPLICATION FILED HOV-26,1913.

Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV. 26. 1913. j 152229594., Patented Apr. 17,1911.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV. 26, ISIS. 13,222,594., l PaIenIefI Apr. 17,1917.

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NI. B. BECKER.

MACHINE FOR PRINTING PREPARED ROOFING.

APPLICATION FILED N0v.26. I9I3.

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Ni. B. BECKER.

MACHINE FOR PRINTING PREPARED ROOFING.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 26. 19|3.

Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

II/l. B. BECKER.,

MACHINE FOR PRINTING PREPARED RooPING.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 26,1913.

Patented Apr. 17,1917.

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IVI. B. BECKER.

MACHINE FOR PRINTING PREPARED ROOFING.

APPLICATION FILED N0v.26. 1913.

192225,59@ Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

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MACHINE ron PRINTING PREPARED aoorrne.

Specification of Letters Jlatent.` v Pattmtedl A1011. Il?, 1917 Application filed November 26, 1913. Serial No. 803,131.

To all 'whom t may concern:

`Be it known that I, MATHIAS B. BECKER,

' citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful `Improvements in Machines for Printing Prepared Roofing; and I do hereby-declare A the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has for its object to provide a machine for printing a design or configuratio-n on what is known as prepared roofing of the general character consisting of a web coated and impregnated with asphaltum and covered on at least one face with granular mineral material Such as gravel, limestone, granite, slate, silex, etc., which determines the color of the weather face of the material. Roofing of the particular nature herein referred to is fully described in Letters Patent Nos. 1024549 and 1024550 granted to me on April 30, 1912.

A The present machine embodies the structural characteristics and general mode of operation of the machine described and claimed in an application for Letters Patent led by me on February 1, 1912, Serial No. 674819, which said application was abandoned.

The present machine illustrated in the ac- :ompanying drawings and which will be herein described in detail adds t0 the original structure defined in the abandoned application above referred to, a' number of improvements whereby a clearer impression of the design or configuration is produced, and slippage of the roong during passage through the machine is prevented thereby. preventing the parts of the design at differ ent points from assuming a different position and being thereby brought out of registering relation to contiguous strips of the roofing when laid on a roof, such roofing be ing, when laid,fmatchedin substantially the samemanner as wall paper.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure -1- is a View in side elevation of a machine embodying my invention.

Fig. -2- is a similar elevation-showing the opposite side of the machine.

Fig. -4- is a vertical. transverse 'section of the same on approximately the line 4-4 of Fig. -3-.

Fig. l5- is a fragmentary detail view of the bottom and part of an end wall of a sanding box forming a part of the machine and the valve controlling the escape of sand or grit from said box.

Fig. -6- is a fragmentary detail transverse section showing an adjustable guide member for determining the path of travel' of the roofing through the machine taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1w-

Fig. -7- is a fragmentary detail view in elevation of an idle roll over which the roofing travels after passing over the printing rolls of the machine.

Fig. -8- is a detail transverse section through the sanding box taken on the line 8-8 of Fig. -3-.

Fig. -9- is a fragmentary detail perspective view of the mechanism for raising and lowering an idle roll disposed above the printing roll. Y

Fig. l0- is a detail View in elevation on an enlarged scale showing variable speed gearing employed for printing rolls of different diameters.

Fig. -11- is a fragmentary detail View in elevation of an adjustable bracket carrying a spur pinion forming a part of the aforesaid variable speed gearing.

Figs. l2-'- and 713- are fragmentary views in elevation showing roofing of difercnt designs produced by the machine in relative position when laid.

Fig. -14 is a fragmentary transverse section showing how the strips are overlapped and secured on a roof.

In the manufacture of ornamented prepared roofing such as is described and claimed in my aforesaid Letters Patent No. 1024550 and as also described inthe aforesaid: Letters Patent No. 1024549 it is requisite first, that the-printing roll and its associated parts shall be so relatively arranged as to placeupon the grit coating or weather face of the roofing a suiicient quantity of liquid (or so-called asphaltum ink whereby the design or configuration is produced on the roofing) as to fiow through the grit coating of said weather face and eat into or amalgamate with the asphaltum coating 1n which the said grit is partially embedded during the process of manufacture of said roofing. It is further y essential that the roofing in passing through said machine shall be maintained in a given path of travel and shall not be permitted to slip longitudilateral lines,

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mental lappearance vin imitation of plainv shingle, cut shingle or tile of various kinds.

It has also been previously indicated that this ornamented roofing, which is the product of this machine, must be matched in sub- ,stantially the same manner as wall paper.

To explain more fully, the prepared roofing is made in long strlps generally 32 inches wide and 60 feet in length. The Weather face is ornamented in passing through the machine and in laying the strips on a roof side by side the lateral lines, stripes, etc., of contiguous strips of rooting must match or become flush with each other. To accomplish this, one edge of the roofing is usually left with a plain margin in the printing and this margin is cut away in laying the roofing so that the meeting edges of contiguous strips will not only be straight but will be trimmed similarly to Wall paper to 4bring the stripes, etc., into register.

The machine comprises a frame consisting of side members l connected together at suitable points by means of suitable crosspieces to which no particular reference need be made. These side pieces are of skeleton shape and include supporting legs 2 and standards 3, 4, 5, and 6 upon which various parts of the machine'are supported.

The members 1 are horizontally disposed and .one of same carries a projectingl bearing 7 at one end in which the drive shaft 8 v 1s journaled, the latter carrying a pulley 9 adapted to be geared by a belt to a suitable source of power. The shaft 8 extends practically the full length of the machine and is further journaled in a projecting bearing 10 A m m., 1mi gears 16 and 19. The shaft 14, however, also carries a smaller spur gear outwardly of the spur gear 16 .and by throwing' the latch member 24 over as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. -11-, and moving the lsaid pinion 17 to the position likewise indicated in dotted lines in said figure, and thereupon raising the bracket 18 to the position indicated in dotted lines in Fig. -10-'-, the said spur gear 17 will be caused to mesh with the said spur gears 19 and 25. The said bracket is secured to a part of the frame of the machine by means of bolts 25a passing through the arc slots 25b in the shank of said bracket.

Above the roller 15 there is disposed an idle roll 26, the shaft of which is journaled in bearings in the ends of arms 27 of a member 28 carried upon the lupper ends of the standards 5 and 6, and above the printing roller 21 there is disposedan idle roll I 29, the shaft of which is journaledin vertically movable bearings mounted in the ends of the arms 30 pivotally mounted upon the standards 4 of the frame. Said bearing is suitably connected with hand levers 31,

one at each side of the machine by means of which said roller 29 may be raised and lowered to permit the end of each roll of prepared roofing to be printed to pass over said printing roll 21 without possibility of its` becoming. jammed and smudged at said end by failure to travel continuously. As-

sociated with the hand levers 31 are other hand levers 32, also one at each side of the Iachine pivotally mounted upon a frame meinber 33 carried by the standards .4, said lever .32 being provided between its ends with a projection 34x normally disposed in the path of the lever 31 to prevent the roller 29 when raised from droppmg down into contact with the printing yroller 21. Said lever 32 is adapted, when the lever 31 is turned tothe At the end of the machine at which the` pulley 9v is found there is mounted an idle "roll-37 over which the roofing is adapted to pass aefter passing over the printing roll 21 and between said roll 37 and said printing rolll 2l there is disposed an idle roll 3 3, the circumferential face of which is provided with a large number of small projections 39, which, while supporting the roofing in travel from the printing roll 21 to the idle roll 37, does not-have the effectof smudging the ink so as to spread the design printed by the` 'roller 21. Mounted upon theframe member 33 is another idle roll 40 over which the roofing passes and from which the strip of roofing passes upon the conveyer device or carrier 4l. At the delivery end of said carrier the roofing is rolled' up ready for market. There is also mounted upon said frame member 33 at the end opposite to l that carrying the idle roll 40 a sanding box 42 below which the roofing passes in travel from theidle roll 37 to the idle roll 40. In

Y the bottom of the sanding boX 42, which is substantially trough-sha ed, is a slot 43 of a length sufficient to de iver sand upon the greatest width -roofing Q adapted to pass through the machine, said slot being controlled by a Slide valve 44=controlled by a hand lever 45': The latter is4 pivotally mounted between its ends upon an extension 46 of the bottom plate of theboxl 42 and is Vto be entirely closed t of sand therefrom.

Journaled in bearings 47 mounted upon the standards 4. of the frame is a `shaft 48 carrying two plates or arms 49 in the outer ends of which rods 50 are mounted, the latter being disposed parallel V)with the shaft pivotally connected at one end with said valve 44. One 0f said levers is provided at either end of the box so that in turning either lever 45 the valve 44 will be moved laterally of the box and at the same time transversely vof the length of the slot thereby enabling more or lessof the latter to be eX- posed for dropping sand upon the rooting in travel. Said valve also enables said slot prevent the `escape over the sand delivered upon theiornamented 7g or printed face from the box 42. said vibrating mechanism being also effective in causing the sanddelivered from the box and carried by the roofing to find its way into the erevices between the grit particles embedded in the weather face of the roofing to prevent the spread of the ink beyond the areas upon whiehvit is applied by the said printing roller 2l. The said shaft 4S carries a sprocket wheel 51 geared by .means cf be sprocket chain 52 to a sprocket wheel 53 earried by the shaft 14.

On that portion of the frame of the machine contiguous to the delivery end thereof there is mounted a horizontal support 54 for a shaft 55 upony which the roll of rooting to be printed is carried. It is customary in some plants to roll the prepared roofing after going through its'primary process of manufacture so that the weather face is inward and in some instances the practice is to `roll the roofing with the weather face outward of the roll. ln the latter case the roll of roofing would be mounted upon a shaft 56 adapted to be supported in recesses in the arms 57 of the frame members 28. Both rolls of roofing are indicated in dotted lines in F ig. 1- but it will be understood that only one roll at a time may be printed and that generally the shaft 55 carrying the roll will be mounted in the recess provided to receive the same in the supporting members 54. The roofing passes from the roll carried by the shaft 55 over rigid supporting surfaces 58 and over an idle roll 59 and then between the rolls 15 and 26 and thence'over the printing roll 2l andfbelow the presser roll 29. The roofing is unrolled by hand and the, end thereof inserted by the operators between the rolls l5 and 256i. Then the operatr at the side 'of the machine carrying the lever 3l raises the lever 32 just as the end of the roofing, after having passedy between f the rollers l5 and 26, passes upon the roller 21. The roller 29 now maintains the roong during travel always in contact with the printed surface of the roll, the latter printing such 4design thereon as its circumferential face shall be adapted for. Then, while the ink is still wet, the printed face of the roofing, which is downwardly disposed during passage over the printing roll. passes in the same position over the idle roll 38 and'is then grasped by hand and guided or trained over the idle rolls 37 and 40 and upon the conveyer and carrier 41, the printed or ornamented face being upwardly disposed during travel from the idle roll 37 over the idle roll 40 and to said conveyer or carrier 41. As soon as the end of the strip has been passed iet lil@

inaaeea the latter at the surface speed of said printing roll whereby toavoid tensile strains on the strip.

20. In a machine of the character described, means for feeding a sheet of rooting material through a given path of movement, and means for securing a protecting surface ot' grit thereto including adhesive applying means, means for applying the grit to the adhesive from a point to cause the grit to fall upon the adhesive, and means for Vibrating the material at the point of application of the grit to cause the grit to embed in the adhesive.

21. In a machine of the character described, means for feeding a sheet of roofing material through a given inclined path of movement, and means for securing a protecting surface of grit thereto including adhesive applying means7 means for applying the grit to the adhesive from a point to cause the grit to fall upon the adhesive, and means for vibrating the material at the point of.

application of the grit to cause the grit to embed in the adhesive and distribute over the surface being treated.

22. In a machine of the character described, means for feeding a sheet of roofing for securing a protecting surface of grit thereto including adhesive applying means, and means for applying grit to the adhesive from a direction to cause the surplus grit to feed freely away from the strip over said unobstructed end portion.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MA'lFI-IIAS B. BECKER.

Witnesses M. M. Bom, v ALBERT SGHEIBLE.

C. L. BEEMAN.

SHIPPING TAG.

APPLICATION man nim/26.1916.

Lgm Patented Apr. 17, 1917. 

